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Title:
Life on the edge : the coming of age of quantum biology / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden.
Author:
Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- author.

McFadden, Johnjoe, author.
Publication Information:
London, England : Black Swan, 2015.

©2014
Call Number:
QP517.Q34 A4 2015
Abstract:
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?
Edition:
Black Swan edition.
ISBN:
9780552778077
Physical Description:
460 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
General Note:
Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2014.
Contents:
Introduction -- What is life? -- The engines of life -- The quantum beat -- Finding Nemo's home -- The butterfly, the fruit fly and the quantum robin -- Quantum genes -- Mind -- How life began -- Quantum biology: life on the edge of a storm -- Epilogue: quantum life.
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